Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-09-01
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss MARY CLAYTON BLACK, a
daughter of the late Jeremiah Black, is
about to publish biography OF her
father.
Mrs. HARRIET B. MAvIs, of Bur-
lingame, Kan, has taken patent for
board designed to hold shirt while
its front and back are being ironed.
Miss KATE RYAN, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, has patented a filing attachment
for hot-water rubber-bags, so that they
can be filed without scalding the hands.
Miss ANNIE THOMAS, of Billings, M.
T., conducts 6,000-acre ranch, looks
after valuable timber property, and has
an interest in two paying mines near
Butte City.
MISS LILLE M. PACKARD, who grad
uated from the College of Liberal Arts,
Boston University, this year has be-
come teacher of mathematics in Lasell
Seminary, at Auburndale.
Miss MINNA K. POLLOCK, the new
Commissioner of Deeds in New York,
has been sworn in. A Boston woman
would like to know what it was she
had to say when they swore her.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON has left West
Pittston, Pa, hoping for improved
health with a change of residence, and
will pass the season in Honesdale with
her sister, Miss Susan Dickinson.
Mrs. FANNIE II. FOWLER, in her col
umn, 1.-THE Woman's Empire" in Man
istee, Mich, deals with Rev. Z. l..
Woodwork, Secretary of the American
Missionary Society, who some time
since set forth the ante-suffrage ground
in Good Cheer.
Mrs. ERNEST HART has done much
to help the suffering Donegal peas
antry by a system of cottage indus
tries. Glove-knitting, crocheting and
embroidery give many poor Irish
women a chance to earn a few shlll'
lings to help the family fund.
Mrs. BESSIE WHITE HAGER, ofLouis
vile, KY, has compelled the State
Board of Pharmacy to grant her a GER
tificate to dispense medicine as chem
ist. Although she had pharmacists
diploma, the Board refused to examine
her. but have now been compelled to
do so by the courts.
Mrs. LOGAN says: sit has happened
that in cases of illness or disability Of
men clerks the wives performed the
duties of their husbands, drawing i'll
their name the salary as if they had
performed the work. In one case the
wife kept up her husbands desk for
three years, receiving the $1,000, and
thereby supporting the family; but
from the day of his death, though she
continued the same work, her salary
was reduced to 5000"
Miss CAROLINE W. HALL, of Boston,
was awarded medal at the recent dis
tribution of prizes at the Academy OF
Fine Arts in Milan, Italy, she being
one of the four fortunate contestants
in the school of landscape painting.
Her subject was part of the grounds
surrounding the home of the great
Leonardo da Vinci. Miss Hall also
distinguished herself in the winter class
of decorative oil painting This is
the second year she has taken a prize
medal.
Miss SARAH ANGIE FRENCH, of Cam
| terbury, N. H. has recently graduated
, with honors at the Medical College OF
the New York Infrmary. She has
7 spent four years in hospitals and medi-
cal colleges in Boston and New York,
: and has refused offers with large sala-
= ries for services in Egypt and India.
, She has now accepted the position OF
. senior resident physician at the institu-
ton from which she has just graduated,
, for one year, after which she intends
/ to spend two years in study in Patir
and Vienna, and then settle in New
2 | York Citv